Amedeo Nazzari
Salvatore Amedeo Buffa
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Emerging from a Sardinian family and trained on the Roman stage, he first appeared in Ginevra degli Almieri (1935) after a recommendation from Elsa Merlini, and his early screen tests were rejected for his height and somber look. A breakthrough arrived with Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938), which turned him into the era’s leading matinee idol and earned an invitation from Mussolini that he politely dec…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
